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I prefer adguard home, much better UI and updating it is easier...at least compared to last time I tried where i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it since it didn't allow it through the web interface like adguard home does. Not a big issue, but still a little annoying compared to just doing it from the web interface.
You make it sound like a chore instead of a delight. Curious.
Yeah I don't think TUIs are a great way to interface with most things. It's a needlessly outdated method and provides an unnecessary barrier to less technically inclined people, and when a GUI interface is present anyways it just kind of dumb. TUIs are slower to execute things with than GUI 99% of the time, and always less intuitive.
I hate this ridiculous nerd trope of loving TUIs, it's getting old and over used.
This is, as you mentioned, true for "less technically inclined" people. But that doesn't make TUIs "dumb" as those more used to terminals may find it faster and more convenient.
In the era of GUIs, it is easy to forget about terminals, but they are not an "old" thing. They are a tool, used every day by millions of people, for countless different purposes.
Many times, it is also the most straightforward interface between you and your computer.